2019 FANTASY OUTLOOK AND PROJECTION: LOOKING GOOD

Max Scherzer is projected to be the best fantasy starting pitcher in the upcoming season. In 2018, he was owned in 97 percent of leagues and it will be at least this high next season as well. He is projected to average 6.68 fantasy points per game in 33 games. His projected rank for the upcoming season is the same as where he finished last season.

SEASON FANTASY RECAP AND TREND

Max Scherzer was the number one fantasy SP. His elite ranking was helped by his higher games played (35). Based on average fantasy points he is the #3 SP. We split his 35 games into 3 segments (start, middle, and end). He peaked early in the season. He averaged 10.7 FPs in his first 11 games and 7.5 FP in his final 12 games. A fast start and slow end is somewhat expected given his age. Based on a relatively low standard deviation, Scherzer can be considered a consistent fantasy player. Our projected ceiling for Scherzer when he 'goes off' is 22 fantasy points (his average is 7.7FPs).

CURRENT CAREER TREND AND STATISTICS

The table below shows his relatively steady fantasy production over the past 2 seasons, which is a good sign given his advancing age.

WEEKLY FANTASY RECAP

Out of 27 fantasy weeks, he was +50% above his weekly average of 10 FPs in 8 of them. He had 8 bad weeks where he was 50% below average.

DAILY FANTASY SEASON RECAP

He averaged 47.6 FD points and 28 DK points per game. We looked at all of his games that were between the 10th and 90th percentile where the 10th percentile is his floor and the 90th is his ceiling. On DraftKings his floor was 2.4 and on FanDuel it was 12 fantasy points. His DraftKings ceiling was 36.8 fantasy points and 61 on FanDuel. On FanDuel, he has been consistent with relatively few good or bad games (+/- 20% of average), and the same was true on DraftKings. We are only including games where they were in the daily fantasy slate and played.